We start in 1957. In the educational movie From the Old to the New (19 min.) the focus lies solely on the positive effects of the reallocation of farmland. Having your land concentrated in one spot leads to more efficient farming.

In The Eilandspolder (1974, 25 min, colour) we visit an old polder, which is a wetland where farming is very inefficient. Quite a few of pieces of land are sold to recreationists from the city, and the polder is also an ideal breeding area for water fowl. How can these interests be brought together? In All Things Change (1980, 29 min, colour) the clash between farming, recreation and nature conservation intensifies. Can these categories really be separated?

About Peter Veer

Peter Veer works both as a scientific researcher and a filmmaker. Most of his work as a filmmaker focuses on quests on the cross roads of spatial development, culture and society. As a scientific researcher he works on a PhD thesis called ‘Framing the Dutch Landscape’, at the University of Amsterdam. The main corpus of this study is the collection of historic dissemination films issued by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture in the post WW Two period (1945-1985).

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